Gates and Manafort were indicted together. Gates admitted his guilt, Manafort is having his day in court. Anyway, that is at least one more criminal that was involved in the Trump campaign. My speculation is the Manafort case is the message to those in Trumps orbit to come clean.

Come clean and accept whatever plea arrangement they're offered. Or not, since Donald's going to pardon all of them, anyway. But IF Manafort's found guilty, the witness tampering pretty much assures that the judge won't show him any leniency on his sentence. On paper.

But I'd think that it would be in Donald's interest to encourage any future indictees to go as quietly as possible, pardons or not.